Production Diary - Yoke Infestation

18/09/2024 - 19/04/2024

Today I started to think about out the story and dialogue for my game today. I Spent a few hours of time checking out some horror games for inspiration, which was pretty fun. I have some good ideas that I'm excited to maybe start and bring the game to life. I will probably change the storyline a bit, but for now I think it's ok.

I also took a look at Unreal Engine today. Seems like it offers more realism compared to Unity. Might be a good idea for the game ideas I have.

22/04/2024 - Today I finished off my post for parasites & sub-cultures where I researched the meaning of parasite and sub-cultures and also looked into the history of otakus.

25/04/2024 - Today I started and finished off my games development design for my game yokai infestation.

26/04/2024 - Today i researched what IP (intellectual property) meant and also looked at tutorials for landscape and scenery for unreal engine to familiarise myself with it

03/05/2024 - Today I made a questionnaire that had open and closed questions in there i also started with the starter scene

06/05/2024

09/05/2024 - Today i started to do the movement for the yokai infestation including the blueprints and the character, i also made a flashlight effect

Blueprints

My notes for the Camera Smoothness:

go to the camera boom details and enable 'Camera Lag' for smoother camera movements.
Adjust both camera rotation lag and camera rotation lag speed to 9 for optimal smoothness.

Character Movement:

Set the maximum walk speed to 350 for balanced and responsive character movement.

Flashlight IMC settings

13/05/2024 - The AI wasn't sensing me, so I was confused about why it wasn't following the player. I double-checked the blueprints but couldn't identify the problem.

Video of AI not being able to see me

14/05/2024 - Today, I tried again to fix the issue. I discovered that I didn't check the Bool value, which is why the AI couldn't see me.

I retargeted and uploaded a UE4 animation, then transferred it to UE5.

I also created a blueprint for the AI to attack. Here are the blueprints.

And here is a video of the AI attacking and the animation of a shove movement.

Animation by - Ramsterz https://www.ramsterzanimations.com/store-buy/p/epic-megajam-2022-free-anims

15/05/2024 - Today I made a blueprint for the player to be able to sprint or not, here is the blueprint for it.

I was going to create the UI for the stamina, but I got confused and left it. I probably won't add a stamina system.

Here is the gameplay so far.

20/05/2024 - Have to make everything all over again in UE 5.3 as i mistakenly used 5.4.

21/05/2024 - Completed everything i did in UE 5.4

22/05/2024 to 1/06/2024 - Started to think of what to make in the UI I ended up with this.

2/06/2024 - Didn't really like how it looked as it didnt match the theme of the game with bright colours so i decided to make the colour scheme black and red.

3/06/2024 - 6/06/2024 - Here are all the UI's for yokai infestation, the font for these are:

https://www.fontspace.com/bento-font-f83124